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Old 01-13-2009, 03:35 AM   #5
Blackbirdws6
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Originally Posted by ****OnWheels View Post
Have you tried to use a different HD? Sounds like the HD has bad sectors or something.
Haven't tried a new HDD but like I said, I reformatted and did error checking on my new comp using a USB external enclosure. I'm not saying that its not the problem but could the error checking miss something?

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Originally Posted by pound View Post
Try pulling the HDD out and booting from an optical drive with a Linux live cd of your choosing. If it works fine then most likely the drive is your problem. If not then I would check the CPU fan and power supply.
I tried this but when went to boot from the CD, I got this message:

Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root FS on unknown block (0,0)

Second time around, it started to boot with the bars going across the screen and freezes at different points.

CPU Fan is running and power supply was replaced shortly before this problem with a slightly upgraded unit.

Any ideas?
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